[Scan-DC] Wireless Home Phone Service in D.C. area

[William Nicholson]

We live in northern Virginia but also have a little cottage in a coastal
Massachusetts town, where the weather can be miserable in the winter and
power outages can last a long time. Verizon has bombarded us with phone
calls and mailings about the "bad service" with copper lines in our town.
There are no problems. Finally, I talked with an honest supervisor who
explained that Verizon wants to dump copper networks because they are
expensive to maintain. He acknowledged that the battery-backup lines don't
do people much good when the power is out for more than a day. I have kept
our copper phone line.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:

>
> My mother and I are seriously considering canceling our Verizon POTS
> copper-wire phone service.
>
> Checking our bill, 35 percent of it goes to taxes.  This is ridiculous.
>
> Verizon called us a couple weeks ago, apologizing for bad phone service we
> may have had recently (we hadn't had trouble).  They were trying to
> encourage us to switch to a new fiber line (I presume) complete with
> battery back-up which we don't have (and don't need) now.  Should we make
> the switch?
>
> What options do we have in the D.C. area for wireless home phone service?
>  I saw ATT and Verizon Wireless both offer a unit for about $22/month in
> this market (anybody using those?).  How many extensions can you run from
> the unit?
>
> What about Internet?  What other common VOIP services are there that use
> our old home telephone (Vonage, MagicJack, etc.)?
>
> We would like to transfer our existing phone number.
>
> Curious what options others are using in the D.C. region.  Since we
> already have a MagicJack now, I was thinking of going wireless for the
> other phone line.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
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